Vandals attack offices of Lib and Lab MPs

THE Melbourne electorate offices of a Labor and a Liberal MP have been vandalised with graffiti attacking their stances on asylum seekers.

"Fre (sic) the refugees" was daubed on the Syndal office of speaker and Labor MP Anna Burke and three windows of a wall shared with other offices were smashed.

The Bentleigh office of Liberal finance spokesman and Goldstein MP Andrew Robb has been sprayed with similar sentiments: "no one is illegal" and "let them in".

There was also a failed attempt to break a window.

Ms Burke says she is disheartened and dismayed by the attack.

"I'm a bit dismayed because of everybody out there, I've been pretty outspoken on behalf of the refugee issue and concerned about everybody's policies, the Labor Party's including the Liberal Party's policies," she told ABC radio.

"So at one level I'm a bit taken aback but I think it just shows the tenor and tone of this election campaign debate."

Ms Burke said she believed people were reacting to three years of a hung parliament, vicious personal attacks and a lack of policy discussion.

Mr Robb said there was no justification for "wanton vandalism" in Australia.

"In Australia we debate robustly with words in the parliament so we can avoid fighting in the streets," he said.

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